Sale of shea butter brings hope to women in Mali

Sale of shea butter brings hope to women in Mali

Niagale Camara places nuts into a basin, working with her colleagues at a cooperative near Bamako, Mali, to transform the fruit into a highly prized vegetable oil: shea butter.  Shea, a tree indigenous to Africa, and whose fruit is collected almost entirely by women, is becoming an instrument of economic development in some of the poorest countries in the world.  According to the Global Shea Alliance, 16 million Africans living in the region fro…

Sale of shea butter brings hope to women in Mali

According to the Global Shea Alliance, 16 million Africans living in the region from Senegal to South Sudan live or survive on its harvest — mainly in rural areas.